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Health care aide provincial curriculum

Important notice: moratorium on licensing agreements

Effective October 1, 2017, Alberta Health has instituted a moratorium on licensing agreements to offer the Health Care Aide Government of Alberta Provincial Curriculum. This moratorium will remain in effect until further notice.

Alberta Health Care Aide Directory

The Alberta Health Care Aide Directory provides information about Health Care Aides (HCA) in Alberta – what they do, and how to become one. The directory also has a number of free resources for Alberta’s HCAs including news, education, job boards and updates.

Health Care Aide curriculim

To encourage consistent training of the health care aide workforce in Alberta, Alberta Health, in consultation with stakeholders, developed the Health Care Aide Government of Alberta Provincial Curriculum, first released in 2005. In 2010, the curriculum was updated and provided to licensed public and private post-secondary institutions, and to employer organizations for use in health care aide education programs in the province.

The curriculum is the tool by which health care aides are trained to the 40 competencies identified in the 2001 Health Care Aide Competency Profile It consists of 37 modules including:

client safety

assisting with medical delivery

positioning lifts and transfers

working with clients with a diagnosis of dementia, etc.

Use of the curriculum

The curriculum is primarily designed for training people working as a health care aide. Anyone can apply to take a health care aide training program at a post-secondary institution with a valid licensing agreement.

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